Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, January 14, 2026, season 13 episode 9 called, “Heroes” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 13 episode 9 called, “Heroes,”as per the NBC synopsis, “Platt finds herself challenged when a simple favor for a former recruit spirals into something far more devastating. ”
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In tonight’s Chicago PD episode, Sergeant Platt was having another busy day at work when Robby McKay walked in. McKay needed a favor. He transferred over to Narcotics. He made a case about a bigtime drug dealer and it got thrown out because of chain of custody was broken. The drug dealer walked away.
Well, McKay has another shot at the drug dealer. His criminal informant gave him a tip about a stash house. He needed Platt to run down some information for him to get everything lined up. She came through. He had everything he needed to finally close his case after two years. And this was personal for him because that drug dealer showed up at his kid’s soccer game once.
Yet, McKay wasn’t there when the moment came to make the arrest. Platt had simply thought he was late to his own party. She stopped by his house to fetch him when she found the door open.
She went inside and she found McKay dead from a gunshot wound to the head. His killer tried to make it appear as if he killed himself only the scene was too messy for it to be self-inflicted. Platt knew how important this bust was to her friend. There’s no way he’d kill himself right as the case was about to close.
Given that the drug dealer silently threatened him once before, she knew the truth. She knew somehow the man he was about to arrest found out about it and took McKay out of the picture.
She just needed to prove it. It helps that she remembered the open door. She was at his house the night before. She didn’t leave the door open. There was no need for McKay to do it either. She knew someone else had been in the house and it couldn’t have been his family. They were out of town. They left for Iowa right as Platt was there the night before. She saw them leave.
She heard from Cait that her sister just had her fifth child. She went to Iowa to go visit them. This also meant that the wife and daughter couldn’t have moved him after he was killed.
His body showed signs that he was moved postmortem. This proved that Platt had been right. Platt told everyone from the very beginning that this was a line of duty shooting. She demanded that an escort sit outside of his house. She didn’t care that all thought she was being irrational and her following through yielded even more results.
There was an open window in McKay’s house. He wouldn’t have opened that window when its so cold outside. There was also a partial fingerprint on the bedframe and so that ruled out the cops that were at the scene afterwards. They were all wearing gloves at the time. Platt then had Burgess check traffic cameras in the area. They spotted a known associate of Los Gatos in a car with his boss Adrian Rodriguez. Rodriguez was McKay’s target. They must have found out about his warrant on their stash house and they killed him to stop it from being carried out.
The partial fingerprint was too smudged to get a match. The only thing they could prove was that it was in McKay’s blood. Something he couldn’t do himself. That was enough for Platt. She wanted to move on the warrant. They raided the stash house. They found it empty. Rodriguez and Juan Molina were also in the wind. They reached out to Los Gatos for massive arrests. They wanted to put the pressure on Rodriguez to show his face. The cops ended up arresting McKay’s CI. The CI was identified as Ines Marin.
Ines was a cousin of Rodriguez. McKay busted making her buy on a college campus. He flipped her and the two worked together just fine. She told the cops that he reminded her of her father. He always happy and always drunk. He was drunk on the night he was killed. His wife and daughter suddenly leaving town like they did sounded more like the marriage was in trouble than she was visiting her sister. Burgess had a lot of questions. Platt told her to essentially to ignore them. The only thing they should focus on was capturing Rodriguez.
They had Ines wear a wire. She found out Rodriguez’s location. The cops moved on it and they found Molina, but no Rodriguez. It could be a disaster for Ines because she was one of the few people that knew about that location. Finding Rodriguez needed to be done fast. They found Molina’s car. The one he drove that night. The GPS put them at McKay’s that night. It also showed they stopped at a laundromat. Burgess went there. She found McKay’s missing cell phone in the trash can behind the laundromat.
Burgess opened it with the help from McKay’s window. She found his video message. The one he left for his family. He did kill himself. Molina and Rodriguez got to the house after he killed himself. They then started to run because they knew what it would look like if they spotted at the house. It would look like they killed McKay. Its what everyone thought. Its what Platt thought too until she found the video. McKay had seen so much on the job and when he heard that the raid on the stash house was going to be no use – he felt like a failure. His depression caught up to him.
They later found Rodriguez. They found him all the drugs he was transporting and so they had enough to send him down for life. They just couldn’t do it for murder. McKay killed himself. Burgess showed Platt the video. And Platt felt McKay’s family deserved to know.
She stopped by his house and she spoke to the wife.
THE END!
